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The Curse of Oak Island Would you go after a treasure knowing one of your friends had to die?

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1 The Curse of Oak Island Would you go after a treasure knowing one of your friends had to die?

2 Oak Island 1795 – Daniel McGinnis sees strange lights out on an Island off of Nova Scotia, He and two friends investigate, sunken area, block and tackle, 2’ down flag stone, 10’ Timbers, 20’ Timbers,30’ Timbers 1804 another expedition by Oslow Company began digging, found charcoal at 30’, 40’, 60’ coconut fibers, 90’ found a coded stone, using Edgar Allen Poe’s method deciphered in 1865 “forty feet below two million pounds are buried”, Pit filled with water to 63 feet, built a parallel shaft, that to filled with water Truro Company, 1849, drilled a shaft to 109’ parallel, found water in money pit salt water The Oak Island Association, 1861, pump exploded killing 1 st victim The Oak Island Treasure Company, 1897 found parchment with writing on it, 1909 Young Franklin Delano Roosevelt joined dig found tunnels to the sea with dye Chappel Company found an anchor flute at 63 ‘ Gilbert Hedden in 1928 began digging, Then the Restall family who had two members die Today Laguna brothers have spent almost 10 million dollars trying to reach the treasure

3 The Curse The curse says 7 must die before all will be revealed 6 have already died and approximately 100 million has been spent on trying to find the treasure Two Presidents have worked the site FDR and Kennedy

4 Explanations Some believe that Captain Kidd wrote about a treasure he buried here Others believe the Knights Templar buried the Ark of the Covenant here and Shakespeare helped describe it Some think the Holy Grail, or cup was placed here


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